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Title
Using claims data to examine mortality trends following hospitalization for heart attack in Medicare.
Authors
Ash, Arlene S; Posner, Michael A; Speckman, Jeanne; Franco, Shakira; Yacht, Andrew C; Bramwell, Lindsey
Abstract
To see if changes in the demographics and illness burden of Medicare patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) from 1995 through 1999 can explain an observed rise (from 32 percent to 34 percent) in one-year mortality over that period.
Publication
Health services research, 2003, Vol 38, Issue 5, p1253